Monday, May 17, 2010

List of Search Engines

I am posting a list of search engines, where you can submit your website to increase ranking and traffic on the web. Search Engine submissions allows you to index your site more easily and prominently in search engines. This compiles of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Altavista and many other prominent search engines. 
www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.yahoo.com
www.alltheweb.com
www.altavista.com
www.dejanews.com
www.excite.com
www.hotbot.com
www.infoseek.com
www.lycos.com
www.planetsearch.com
www.northernlight.com
ragingsearch.altavista.com
www.supersnooper.com
www.topclick.com
www.voila.com
www.webcrawler.com
www.whatuseek.com
www.askjeeves.com
www.c4.com
www.dogpile.com
www.debriefing.com
www.gohip.com
www.ignifuge.com
www.idexer.com
www.infozoid.com

Friday, May 14, 2010

Can We Optimize Dynamic Website or Pages Easily Like Static Sites?

What Is Dynamic Website/Webpage? 
Dynamic pages or sites are pages generated from a database. It is also called database driven sites. Technologies used for Dynamic pages are PHP, PERL, ASP and many more technologies have came recently. 
Its true that dynamic pages found difficulties in getting noticed by the search engines. The reason for this is that Dynamic Pages sre Database Driven pages and its not possible for Search Engines to select those variables and so they are unable to index those pages from Dynamic Websites. 
Moreover the DYNAMIC URL's contains &,%,? etc. which obstruct the crawlers to crawl the page contents. 
Play some tricks by following these tips to make dynamic pages crawlable by Search Engines:
1. Link the dynamic pages of the site from the static pages. Submit the dynamic pages manually to search engines.
2. There are some softwares like Coldfusion which can replace special characters into some other text that is readable by crawlers.
3. CGI/PERL can be used to convert query string in url with alphabetical texts. Path_Info and Script_Name are variables which contain complete url including strings in dynamic pages.
4. Many webhosting companies provide Apache Software to convert dynamic URL into a kind of url that can be indexed by Search crawlers or say search engines. mod_rewrite query string in Apache converts any desired url into search engine friendly url. 
There is also one basic criteria that a database driven page or web application must be well written without having any error. Other issues than be corrected with dynamic website is a method to have individual meta tags and title tags for each page of the dynamic website.  Depending upon whether your dynamic website is cms based or bespoke you may be able to find modules or components already written by someopne that will allow you to do this.
A dynamic page like - http://www.example.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp ?lngWId=3&txtCodeId=769 can be changed into - http://www.example.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.769/ lngWId.3/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm
which is search engine friendly. Once you've converted the URL, be sure to use search engine optimization techniques that you normally follow to modify the HTML tags and content within the tags before submitting all pages in accordance with each search engine's submission guidelines separately.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Search Engine Optimizer's (SEO's) Job Complete Interview Questions - Guide

Search Engine Optimizer's interview is a very practical interview. The work of a SEO professional is something that talks for him even after someone has left working on the particular job. Take your interview seriously and keep in mind all the small things that you have done during your past job. You can be even asked like - "Name any ten directory submission sites."
Read some very important interview questions and do prepare well for the interview next time you are going for a job change. One thing is very clear about an interview is that the more you are clear in your thoughts the more likely you are going to impress the interviewer.
I am listing 35 most asked interview questions in a SEO Job interview.
1. Describe your general SEO experience.
2. On which projects you are currently working on if so name them.
3. Do you own and update any blogs of your own? 
4. Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
5. What is the future of SEO Industry.
6. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read or keep track of?
7. What SEO tools do you regularly use and what is your opinion on them are they worth using?
8. Name SEO areas you are strong in and name those you are week in?
9. How good you are in writing and do you have any online written content published. 
10. What are link buying, link bait, and other specific backlink strategies?What is the best way to build backlinks? How effective is link building.
11. Name some big names in SEO Industry.
12. What is page segmentation?
13. What’s the difference bewtween PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?
14. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI - Indexing)?
15. Describe Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval?
16. Given a chance to work on a project implementing only one technique what will you choose and why?
17. How much time will you take to rank this site www.example.com?(Never answer this question without any review and taking a look of its nature of presence on the web. Nature of presence means is the business of the site localized or globalized. Take a look at the site's overall built, navigation, quality etc.)
18. Can you write HTML code by hand?
19. Explain the PageRank algorithm?
20. What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
21. Explain what META tags matter in Google these days.
22. Explain various steps that you will take to optimize a website?
23. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
24. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
25. Why might you want to use nofollow on an internal link?
26. How many target keywords should a site have?
27. What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?
28. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?
29. How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?
30. Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?
31. Do you manage Google Webmaster Tool.
32. Which Tool you use for Keyword research.
33. Did you work on PPC? 
34. Have you done any Video Submissions and Video Promotions? Are they helpful?
35. Which is you best project till date that you have worked on?
I hope these questions are well enough for you to answer and checkout yourself when will you be heading for an interview for a sure shot selection in your next interview. Your comments and feedback are invited to encourage me in doing more posts like this to help SEO Professionals. 


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Most Preferred OFF-Page-Optimization Steps

Off-Page Optimization techniques are very important to perform after a good On-Page work. Without off-page work it will be no good to the website alone with the On-Page Optimization. Practicing all these techniques will be a great boost to the website's ranking and increasing organic traffic into your website and increase your business. 
1. Free Directory Submission
2. Free Article submission
3. Free Social bookmaking
4. Forum posting
5. Blog Creations
6. Blog Posting
7. Blog Submission
8. RSS Feed Directory submission
9. Free Local Classifieds Add
10. Free Global Classifieds Add
11. Press Release submission
12. Image Optimization
13. Video Optimization
14. Social Networking sites Add.
15. Free Advertisement 

16. Free Yellowpages
17. Newsletters
18. Email Marketting

On-Page-Optimization-Steps

On Page Optimization is a very important aspect in SEO. Without support of On-Page SEO Off-Page can not do any great leap in the traffic and ranking of the site. 
Many of these on page techniques are also needed to track the websites performance like the Google Webmaster Tool and The Google Analytics.

1.Keyword research and Analysis
2. Doc type Analysis
3. Optimization of title tags of all important pages
4. Optimization of other Meta tags (Description etc…)
5. Optimization of header tags H1, H2, and H3
6. Analysis of bold tag
7. Optimizing JavaScript and CSS codes
8. Optimization of non index able attributes like Frames
9. Optimizing HTML Source Code
10. Image optimization
11. Hyperlink Optimization
12. Optimizing internal linking structure (Navigation)
13. Optimization of external Links
14. Broken links analysis & correction
15. W3c Validation
16. Creation & Optimization of HTML Site Map
17. Creation, Optimization & Submission of Yahoo (TEXT) Site Map
18. Creation, Optimization & Submission of Google (XML) Site Map
19. Website architectural correction
20. Content Optimization
21. Canonicalization error correction
22. Blog Setup
23. Google Analytics Setup
24. Google Webmaster Tool